It was his first chance, and maybe his last chance, to cast a vote. That's what one mother in Aichi Prefecture thought as she ...

Shoki Murakami threw a two-hit shutout Saturday to put a damper on the party atmosphere at Tokyo Dome as the Central ...

TOKYO -- A venture company originating from Kobe University has recreated the "pleasant scent" that wafts from babies' heads ...

Before arriving in Japan, I had only lived in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where I grew up, or my rural college ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next ...

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A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration's request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades ...

Wataru Endo dedicated Liverpool's English Premier League season-opening win to the late Diogo Jota on Friday after the J ...

Negotiations to reach a major treaty to end growing plastic pollution around the world fell apart on Friday, with delegates ...

The Japanese Embassy in the Philippines held a ceremony Friday to remember all those who suffered and died in the fie ...

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others miss ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) -- President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on ...